TBS, the cable channel that bills itself as the home of "very funny" programming, is teaming with the actors Will Arnett and Jason Bateman and DumbDumb, their company that creates humorous Web video clips for brands like Denny's, Old Navy and Orbit gum.
While the stoner hijinks are funny, the program, says Johnson, offers a "less common view of the black male character," and an interesting window into African American culture.
Which sounds funnier, a program in which an astronaut's life is complicated when he finds a genie, or one in which six friends sit around a coffeehouse talking about themselves?
Just last night, I came across the family program Funny Videos while channel surfing.
The investment could mean there would be Funny or Die programming block on the cable network, AMC and its cable channel, IFC, said.
The funniest of the program's pieces is the brief finale, "Pandora" by Susan Kim, a skit in which an estranged suburban husband makes a pitch to his wife for reconciliation after she has just been proposed to by another man.
First just a Japanese funny-home-video program, but then in Europe.
"Why does this program seem funny?" he asked.
"THE REALLY GOOD AND FUNNY SHOW," an interactive program by Child's Play Touring Theater.
It sounds serious, as does the subject of the film program, Not Funny, about the cross-pollination between the comedy and art world in the 1970s.
